Monday, January 9, 2017

PALACE OF THE MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO

Restored in
1927 by Pier Luigi Nervi (1891/1979) for the
transformation of the building in the seat of the State Monopolies. A roof for
the large room of the selection of tobacco was built

Renovated
again in 1958 by Cesare Pascoletti (1898/1986)
who demolished the original wings of the building

It is now
the seat of the AMMINISTRAZIONE AUTONOMA DEI MONOPOLI DI STATO (Indipendent
Administration of the State Monopolies) that, according to the official
definition, “controls the public gaming sector in Italy through a constant
check on the work of dealers and a targeted action against irregularities. It
has in addition the faculty to control the production, distribution and sale of
tobacco products and the collection and payment of taxes that burden it”

Just
like the popes who speculated in the past on the deadly habit of tobacco, so
today the Italian state profit handsomely from the same vice, albeit without
monopoly, and gorges itself obscenely of the proceeds of gambling that causes
havoc for many families